September 05, 2008

Ah...Eddie and Patsy go to France. (This is what I looked like after a thimbleful of wine when Jon and I visited the Viansa Winery in Sonoma a couple years ago.) I can always count on Absolutely Fabulous to crack me up.

August 10, 2008

One Saturday night, Jon and I were driving around searching for Sopranos locations (P.S. They tore down Satriale's!),
and we somehow came up with the brilliant idea of combining words
describing sadness with the names of different foods. I think it
started with "depretzel" and then just went on from there. The formula
is to start with a word describing some sort of sadness and to end with
a food. Here's what we have so far:

August 06, 2008

One Saturday night, Jon and I were driving around searching for Sopranos locations (P.S. They tore down Satriale's!),
and we somehow came up with the brilliant idea of combining words
describing sadness with the names of different foods. I think it
started with "depretzel" and then just went on from there. The formula
is to start with a word describing some sort of sadness and to end with
a food. Here's what we have so far:

August 04, 2008

One Saturday night, Jon and I were driving around searching for Sopranos locations (P.S. They tore down Satriale's!),
and we somehow came up with the brilliant idea of combining words
describing sadness with the names of different foods. I think it
started with "depretzel" and then just went on from there. The formula
is to start with a word describing some sort of sadness and to end with
a food. Here's what we have so far:

One Saturday night, Jon and I were driving around searching for Sopranos locations (P.S. They tore down Satriale's!), and we somehow came up with the brilliant idea of combining words describing sadness with the names of different foods. I think it started with "depretzel" and then just went on from there. The formula is to start with a word describing some sort of sadness and to end with a food. Here's what we have so far:

July 26, 2008

July 22, 2008

Jon and I used to love watching The Two Fat Ladies. The way they mooshed ingredients together with their hands was something to behold. Sadly, but not surprisingly, Jennifer--the fat lady with the ruby-red nail polish--died a few years ago. Must have been all the streaky bacon...and cigarettes.

July 15, 2008

How could I not insert the "muffin top" clip from Seinfeld? It's a classic!

And for all you Blueberry Muffin Top Cookie fans out there, you might want to try my Coffee Cake Cookies. I swear they taste just like cinnamony, crumbly coffee cake topping, which, in my humble opinion, is the best part of coffee cake.

July 08, 2008

Every year at around this time--well a little earlier than this, actually--I get Galaxie 500's "Fourth of July" stuck in my head. My favorite line: "I wrote a poem on a dog biscuit, and the dog refused to look at it."

June 17, 2008

The Rules:The player answers the questions about himself. At the end of the post, the player tags 5 blogs and then leaves comments on those blogs letting the bloggers know they’ve been tagged and asking them to continue the game. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answers. (Nonbloggers are welcome to participate as well.)

What I was doing ten years ago:1. Starting the third week of my first "grownup job."2. Trying not to get lost on the way to my first "grownup job."Five (nonwork) things on my to-do list for today:1. Figure out what to do with that avocado I bought on Monday.2. Upload the posts I drafted this afternoon.3. Check Perez Hilton for the fiftieth time.4. Unload and then load the dishwasher.5. Do a facemask. (Night of beau-tay!)

Five snacks I enjoy:1. Oatmeal cookies (Duh!)2. Doughnuts from Doughnut Plant3. Slim Jims4. Salsa verde from Rosa Mexicano5. Did I say oatmeal cookies?Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:1. Buy a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights.2. Learn a bunch of languages and live abroad for a while.3. Set up trusts for all my relatives (because you know they'll have their hands out...).4. Start an oatmeal cookie-baking business.5. And, oh yeah, give loads away to charity.

May 28, 2008

Back in the day, Dunkin' Donuts had a commerical for their muffins that
featured two grandmotherly ladies. The ladies were talking about how
they couldn't believe how good DD's muffins were. One lady turns to the
other and says, "They're even better than yours, Wanda." (Kind of like
that commerical for Almost Home gravy: "Tastes like homemade...but no
lumps!")

I'm trying to find this classic commercial online, but I don't have
access to YouTube right now. Could any of you, my loyal readers, find
the link and send it to me?

May 18, 2008

The SciFi Channel is showing the Indiana Jones trilogy all weekend. How could I not watch? (You call those special effects? You can totally see the painted backdrop!) And I couldn't help but put on my critical theory hat during Temple of Doom.

Between the old movies and the '90s station in my grocery store plays, I started thinking about my "formative years." A few hours later I found this Boo Radleys video on YouTube, the internet time machine. The video doesn't really start until the 0:19 mark, so stick with it. My favorite part is the girl sitting atop a mountain of fruit at the 1:30 mark. Ahhh, the randomness. A '90s Britpop/alterna-rock video wouldn't be complete without it!

March 02, 2008

One Saturday night, Jon and I were driving around searching for Sopranos locations (P.S. They tore down Satriale's!), and we somehow came up with the brilliant idea of combining words describing sadness with the names of different foods. I think it started with "depretzel" and then just went on from there. The formula is to start with a word describing some sort of sadness and end to with a food. Here's what we have so far:

February 11, 2008

So this is the kind of stuff that takes up space in my head, causing me to say Febreze when I really mean Splenda.

There are foods whose names contain two words. The first word is an animal/person; the second word is a (body) part. But the food itself does not contain the named animal/person, nor does it contain the named (body) part.

Here’s the list I’ve been updating for a year or so…

bear claw: a wicked big donut-y thing you can get at Honey Dews in Massachusetts. elephant ear: a big cookie-ish/pastry-ish thing.horse's neck: an ice cream drink made with ginger ale.buddha's hand: a citrus fruit. (I saw it on Iron Chef once, so it must be real.)lady finger: cookies for tiramisu.buffalo wing: spicy chicken wing.*hair of the dog: booze to cure a hangover.**chicken finger: breaded, fried chicken breast strips

*This one’s iffy because the syntax doesn’t follow the rules. Technically, it should be dog hair.**I’m on the fence about this one. Though not made of fingers, it is made of chicken—which goes against the first rule…